If you’ve happened to spot a logging truck headed into or out of the current dead-end of TDK Boulevard towards Planterra Ridge golf course, don’t worry. The dormant TDK Extension project into Coweta County hasn’t been revived.

Instead it’s progress on a project of significant scale: the Lake McIntosh reservoir.

The trucks are going back there occasionally to harvest marketable timber that will be taken down before the remainder of the trees are cleared at a later date, said Tony Parrott, director of the Fayette County Water System.

The logging operation will not be continuous as the company doing the work doesn’t want to flood the market, so it will remain gradual, Parrott said.

The next step toward construction is getting the construction plans approved by the Georgia Safe Dams agency, Parrott said. All told, the construction process will take about three and a half years from the beginning until the lake is at its full level, Parrott added.

The reservoir will provide enough water to support more than 56,000 additional Fayette residents, according to county data. The county has a capacity of producing 20.3 million gallons a day on its own to support a population of up to 142,960, meaning that the addition of Lake McIntosh will support more than 200,000 people living in Fayette.

The project has been under discussion since at least the mid-1970s and the county already has purchased all necessary land in conjunction with the project.